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Charles Bukowski

Born August 16, 1920(1920-08-16)
Andernach, Germany
Died March 9, 1994 (aged 73)
San Pedro, California, USA
Occupation Novelist, Poet
Nationality German
Literary movement Transgressional fiction
Influences
Influenced

Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an influential American poet and novelist. Events 1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Andernach (pronounced) is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany of currently about 30000 inhabitants which are Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. 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Raegan Butcher (born January 15, 1969) is an American Poet and singer Eduard Limonov (Эдуард Лимонов real name Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko, Эдуард Вениаминович Савенко born February 22 1943 is a Russian Larry Brown may refer to Larry Brown (basketball (born 1940 NCAA ABA and NBA coach Larry Brown (baseball (born 1940 Events 1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors, and his style is frequently imitated. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print. He is often remembered as "The Poet Laureate of Skid Row. A Poet Laureate is a Poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events A skid row or skid road is a run-down or dilapidated urban area with a large population of impoverished abusers of Alcohol and often other Drugs "

Contents

Life

Early years

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, in 1920 as Heinrich Karl Bukowski. Andernach (pronounced) is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany of currently about 30000 inhabitants which are Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar His mother Katharina Fett, a native German, met his father, a German-American serviceman, after the end of World War I. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Bukowski's parents were Catholic and raised him in the Church. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". [1] He was fond of claiming that he had been born out of wedlock, but Andernach records show that his parents were in fact married a month prior to his birth. [2]

After the collapse of the German economy following the First World War, the family moved to America in 1923, settling in Baltimore, Maryland. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The United States of America —commonly referred to as the To sound more American, Bukowski's parents began calling him "Henry" and altered the pronunciation of the family name from Buk-ov-ski to Buk-cow-ski (the name is of Polish origin). After saving money, the family moved to suburban Los Angeles in 1926, where his father's family lived. South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West [2] During Bukowski's childhood, his father was often unemployed, and according to Bukowski, verbally and physically abusive (as detailed in his autobiographical novel, Ham on Rye). Ham on Rye is a 1982 Semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. During his youth Bukowski suffered from shyness - at some point he developed an extreme case of acne[3], which perhaps furthered his tendency of shyness. In Humans shyness (also called diffidence) is a Social psychology term used to describe the Feeling of apprehension lack of confidence Acne vulgaris (commonly called acne) is a Skin disease caused by changes in the Pilosebaceous units (skin structures consisting of a Hair follicle

After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Bukowski attended Los Angeles City College for two years, taking courses in art, journalism and literature. Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public High school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified Los Angeles City College, known as LACC is a public Community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles California. While studying there, he briefly associated with a group of Nazis, whom he humorously derided in Ham on Rye. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Ham on Rye is a 1982 Semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. [1] He also discussed his flirtation with the Far Right in the short story "Politics" from the collection South of No North: "At L. Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, or radical right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group A City College just before World War 2, I posed as a Nazi. I hardly knew Hitler from Hercules and cared less. It was just that sitting in class and hearing all the patriots preach how we should go over and do the beast in, I grew bored. I decided to become the opposition. I didn't even bother to read up on Adolf, I simply spouted anything that I felt was evil or maniacal. " [4]

On July 22, 1944, with World War II still raging, Bukowski was arrested by FBI agents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (where he was living at the time) on suspicion of draft evasion and was held for 17 days in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə A draft dodger, draft evader or draft resister, is a person who avoids ("dodges" or otherwise violates the Conscription policies of the

On August 7 of the same year he failed a physical and psychological exam and was deemed unfit for military service. Military service in its simplest sense is service by an individual or group in an Army or other military organization whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary [5]

Early writing

At 24, Bukowski's short story "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip" was published in Story magazine. Two years later, another short story, "20 Tanks From Kasseldown", was published in Portfolio III's broadside collection. Bukowski grew disillusioned with the publication process and quit writing for almost a decade. During part of this period he went on living in Los Angeles, but also spent some time roaming around the United States, working odd jobs and staying in cheap rooming houses. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the [1] In the early 1950s Bukowski took a job as a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service in Los Angeles, but resigned just before three years service.

In 1955 he was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer which was nearly fatal. When he left the hospital, he began to write poetry. [1] In 1957, he married writer and poet Barbara Frye, but they divorced in 1959. Frye insisted that their separation had nothing to do with literature, though she often doubted his skill as a poet. Following the divorce, Bukowski resumed drinking and continued to write poetry. [1]

1960s

By 1960 he had returned to the post office in Los Angeles, where he continued to work as a letter filing clerk for over a decade. In 1964, a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and his then live-in girlfriend Frances Smith.

The Webbs published The Outsider literary magazine and featured some of Bukowski's poetry. The Outsider was a 1960s Literary magazine published by Loujon Press Under the Loujon Press, they published Bukowski's It Catches My Heart In Its Hands (1963), and Crucifix in a Deathhand, in 1965.

Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for Los Angeles' Open City underground newspaper, and it also appeared in Charles Plymell's Underground Tabloid The Last Times Vol. The phrase underground press is most often used to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the Counterculture of the 1, No. 1 from the Fall 1967 where it may have been "lifted" from Open City. When Open City was shut down in 1969, the column was picked up by the Los Angeles Free Press. The Los Angeles Free Press (often called “the Freep ” and "the LAFP" In 1969, Bukowski and his friend Neeli Cherkovski launched their own mimeographed literary magazine, Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945 in Santa Monica California) is a San Francisco poet Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns was a mimeographed literary magazine published between 1969 and 1971 in Los Angeles California by Charles Bukowski They produced three issues over the next two years.

Black Sparrow Years

In 1969, he accepted an offer from Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin and quit his post office job to dedicate himself to full-time writing. Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press is a boutique book publisher founded in 1966 by John Martin of Santa Rosa California. He was then 49 years old. As he explained in a letter at the time, "I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy . . . or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve. "[6] Less than one month after leaving the postal service, he finished his first novel, Post Office. Post Office ( 1971) is a Novel written by Charles Bukowski. In the same way that Ham On Rye can be said to be an autobiographical As a measure of respect for Martin's financial support and faith in a then relatively unknown writer, Bukowski published almost all of his subsequent work with Black Sparrow. In 1976, Bukowski met Linda Lee Beighle, a health food restaurant owner. Two years later, the couple moved from the East Hollywood area, where Bukowski had lived for most of his life, to the harborside community of San Pedro,[7] the southernmost district of the City of Los Angeles. San Pedro is a beach community within Los Angeles California, USA Bukowski and Beighle were married by Manly Palmer Hall in 1985. Manly Palmer Hall ( March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian -born Author and mystic. Linda Lee Beighle is referred to as "Sara" in Bukowski's novels Women and Hollywood. Hollywood (ISBN 0876857659 is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences surrounding the film Barfly.

Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9th, 1994 in San Pedro, California, at the age of 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Leukemia or leukaemia (Greek leukos λευκός, "white" aima αίμα, "blood" is a Cancer of the Blood San Pedro is a beach community within Los Angeles California, USA Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The funeral rites were conducted by Buddhist monks. Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices His gravestone reads: "Don't Try".

Work

Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s, with the poems and stories being later republished by Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/ECCO) as collected volumes of his work. Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press is a boutique book publisher founded in 1966 by John Martin of Santa Rosa California. HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation.

Bukowski acknowledged Anton Chekhov, James Thurber, Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Robinson Jeffers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, D. H. Lawrence, Antonin Artaud and others as influences, and often spoke of Los Angeles as his favorite subject. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( –) (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов) was a Russian short-story writer and Playwright, considered to be one James Grover Thurber ( December 8, 1894 &ndash November 2, 1961) was an American Humorist and Cartoonist. Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen ( August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. John Fante ( April 8, 1909 &ndash May 8, 1983) was an American novelist short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the Pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (27 May 1894 &ndash 1 July 1961 John Robinson Jeffers ( January 10 1887 &ndash January 20 1962) was an American Poet, known for his work about the central Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930 was an English writer of the 20th century whose prolific and diverse output included Novels short Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud ( September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in In a 1974 interview he said, "You live in a town all your life, and you get to know every bitch on the street corner and half of them you have already messed around with. You've got the layout of the whole land. You have a picture of where you are. . . . Since I was raised in L. A. , I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. I've had time to learn this city. I can't see any other place than L. A. "[6]

One critic has described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free. "[8] Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings. Despite the fact that he has become an icon and heroic role model for many of the disaffected, his work has received relatively little attention from academic critics (In the fall of 2008 Plymouth State University is hosting a single author literature class on Bukowski). ECCO continues to release new collections of his poetry, culled from the thousands of works published in small literary magazines. According to ECCO the 2007 release The People Look Like Flowers At Last will be his final posthumous release as now all his once-unpublished work has been published. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [9] Bukowski: Born Into This, a film documenting the author's life, was released in 2004.

In June 2006, Bukowski's literary archive was donated by his widow, Linda Lee Bukowski, to the Huntington Library, in San Marino, CA. The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is an educational and research institution established by Henry E Copies of all editions of his work published by the Black Sparrow Press are held at Western Michigan University, which purchased the archive of the publishing house after its closure in 2003.

In popular culture

Music

Bukowski has been referred to in songs by numerous musicians and bands including X, City and Colour, The Fall, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Anthrax, Apollo 440, Leftover Crack, Bad Radio, Dan Bern, The Boo Radleys, Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, Chiodos, The Good Life, Jehst, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sage Francis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311, The Beautiful South, Erik Truffaz, James Alan Gourley, Audience of One, The Dogs D'Amour, The Disco Biscuits, St. Vitus Dance, Peachcake, The Jonbenet, Modern Life is War, The Lowest of the Low, MC Lars, Razorlight, Jon Bon Jovi, The Ataris, Jawbreaker, U2, Buck 65, and Johnny Dowd. X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex or occasionally ecks (ɛks plural exes City and Colour is an acoustic side-project fronted by Dallas Green, rhythm guitarist and singer for the Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band with multinational personnel fronted by Nick Cave. Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American Singer-songwriter, Composer, and Actor. Modest Mouse are an American Alternative rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Anthrax is an acute Disease in humans and animals caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis which is highly lethal in some forms Leftöver Crack is an American Anarchist Ska punk band formed in 2000 following the breakup of the Ska punk Bad Radio was a four piece American progressive Funk rock band that formed in San Diego, California in 1986 Dan Bern (aka Bernstein, a name which he sometimes performs under is a Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, Novelist, and painter The Boo Radleys were a British Alternative rock band of the 1990s who were associated with the Shoegazing and Britpop movements Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males are an Australian band from Melbourne, Victoria. Chiodos (Pronounced chi-oh-dos is a six-member Post-Hardcore band from Davison Michigan The Good Life is an Indie rock band on Saddle Creek records Started as a solo project of Cursive 's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life William G Shields (born 25 December 1979 better known as Jehst or a slew of aliases including The High Plains Drifter and Jay Star is an English rapper and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a New York City -based Alternative rock band Paul "Sage" Francis (born November 2, 1977 in Miami Florida) is a hip-hop artist based in Providence, Rhode Island Red Hot Chili Peppers are 311 (pronounced "three eleven" is a band from Omaha Nebraska. The Beautiful South were an English Pop group formed at the end of the 1980s by former members of Hull group The Housemartins - Paul Heaton Erik Truffaz (born 1960 in Switzerland) is a Swiss -born French Contemporary jazz Trumpeter, infusing elements of Hip The Dogs D'Amour are a Rock band formed during 1983 in London England. The Disco Biscuits are a Trance fusion Jam band from Philadelphia. Peachcake are an American Indie pop group from Carefree / Cave Creek, Arizona, formed in December 2003. The Jonbenét is an American Post-hardcore outfit from Houston Texas. Modern Life Is War (commonly abbreviated as MLIW) was a Marshalltown Iowa -based melodic hardcore punk band The Lowest of the Low were a Canadian Alternative rock group in the early 1990s Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6 1982) is an American rapper, known by his Stage name MC Lars. Razorlight are an English rock band formed in 2002 They are primarily known in their home country having topped the charts with the 2006 single America and Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi Jr on March 2 1962 is an American Musician, Songwriter and Actor. The Ataris are a Pop punk band originally hailing from Anderson, Indiana. Jawbreaker was a San Francisco punk band The band also had roots in Los Angeles, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler attended Richard Terfry, better known as Buck 65, is a Canadian hip hop artist MC and Turntablist. Johnny Dowd (born March 29 1948 in Fort Worth Texas) is an American Alternative country musician from Ithaca New York

Tom Russell's 2005 album Hotwalker drew extensively on his own correspondence with Bukowski, and featured spoken word anecdotes by Little Jack Horner, a friend of Bukowski. Thomas George "Tom" Russell (born 5 March 1950 in Los Angeles) is an American Singer-songwriter.

Bukowski is mentioned in a song written by Chris Hickey called "Downtown" from the "fare well" CD by Uma. ". . . old man on the couch, he looked liked the ghost of Charles Bukowski. " The recording also has a sound clip of Bukowski at the beginning saying "alright, alright, you guys, ok. . . " from Bukowski's "Hostage. "

The Portland OR. hardcore punk band POISON IDEA named their 1987 release "WAR ALL THE TIME", after a book of poems by Bukowski.

The band Hot Water Music took its name from a book by Bukowski. Hot Water Music is a punk band from Gainesville, Florida. The members of the band are Chuck Ragan, Chris Wollard, Jason Black The artists Thursday, Senses Fail, Worst Case Scenario, Richard Ashcroft, Juno, The Cult and Amber Pacific have produced albums named after Bukowski's work. Thursday is a Post-hardcore band from New Brunswick New Jersey that has released four full-length albums. Senses Fail is an American band based in Ridgewood New Jersey, formed in 2002. Richard Paul Ashcroft (born September 11 1971 in Billinge Higher End Lancashire) is an English Singer-songwriter. The Cult are an English rock band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-'80s singles like " She Sells Sanctuary " Amber Pacific is a Pop punk band that formed in 2002 near Seattle, Washington.

Additionally, Gary McDaniel, former bassist of Black Flag, went by the stage name Chuck Dukowski and Mike Williams, vocalist for the New Orleans band Eyehategod has cited the works of Bukowski as one of the primary influences in his writing. Black Flag was a Hardcore punk band formed in 1977 in southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist Chuck Dukowski (b Gary McDaniel, February 1, 1954) is an American Punk rock musician best known as a founding member and original bass player Mike Williams is the singer for Eyehategod and former associate editor for Metal Maniacs. Eyehategod (also abbreviated and referred to as EHG) is an American Sludge metal band from New Orleans who formed in 1988

H.I.M. frontman Ville Valo has a portrait of Bukowski tattooed on his forearm. HIM is a rock band from Finland formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko Lindström, Ville Hermanni Valo ( (born 22 November 1976 is a Finnish Singer, Songwriter, and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM

Film and television

Henry Charles Bukowski and his works have been the subject of several films. The earliest is Tales of Ordinary Madness (original title: Storie di ordinaria follia) by Italian director Marco Ferreri and starring Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti. Tales of Ordinary Madness (it Storie di ordinaria follia) (fr Conte de la folie ordinaire) is a 1981 film by Italian Marco Ferreri ( May 11, 1928 – May 9, 1997) was an Italian Film director, Screenwriter and Actor. Biagio Anthony “Ben” Gazzara (born August 28, 1930) is an American Actor in Television and Motion pictures. Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan The movie, which is largely based on some of Bukowski's tales, was not very commercially successful, possibly because of its uncompromising style.

Next came his own autobiographical screenplay for the 1987 film Barfly. Barfly is a film which is a semi-autobiography of poet Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles California In the documentary, Bukowski: Born Into This, he offers his opinion that the Mickey Rourke portrayal of him in Barfly was "misdone". Also released in 1987 was the Belgian movie Crazy love, which in part was based on the short story The copulating mermaid of Venice, California. 2005 saw the release of the movie Factotum starring Matt Dillon; the movie is based on the novel of the same name, which centers on Henry Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of Bukowski, as he struggles from one job to the next, all the while pursuing his true interests: alcohol, women and writing. Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award - Golden Globe Award - and BAFTA Award -nominated Factotum is the second novel by American author Charles Bukowski, published in 1975 Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski is the Protagonist of five novels by Charles Bukowski, as well as many short stories and poems This latter film appears to be a second attempt at verisimilitude in depicting a portion of his life even though it makes no pretense of occurring in the appropriate decade. Whereas in Barfly the focus is more on women, drinking and bare-knuckle boxing, in Factotum it is the writing which receives greater emphasis. Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski.

The Charles Bukowski Tapes is a 240 minute, 52 chapter collection of interviews directed by and conducted by Barfly director Barbet Schroeder. The Charles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short-interviews with the US-American writer Charles Bukowski, filmed and assembled by Barbet Schroeder and first Barbet Schroeder (born August 26, 1941) is a French movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s They were shot in 1985 and released on DVD in 2006.

Bukowski's short story The Suicide was made into an award winning short film in 2006 [10]. The lead role of Marvin Denning was played by Jeff Markey and the female lead, Diana, was played by Kinna McInroe. The film was directed by Jeff Markey.

In February 2007 it was announced that Gabor Csupo will be producing How the Dead Love, an animated film which will use four of Bukowski's short stories. Gábor Csupó (gabɔr tʃupo (Csupó Gábor ( 29 September 1952 in Budapest) is a Hungarian -born Animator and co-founder of the There are rumors that Johnny Depp will voice this film's main character and will also produce the film with Csupo via Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil. John Infinitum Nihil is Johnny Depp 's production house that has largely been kept away from the public eye

Bukowski is also mentioned in a scene in the movie Glory Daze, starring Ben Affleck. Glory Daze is an independent film starring Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and French Stewart. Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt; August 15 1972 is an American Film Screenwriter, director, actor and older brother of

Bukowski is made reference to in the television series, Californication, episode 9. Hank's ex-girlfriend, Karen, refers to him as one of her favorite authors, and is later seen in the episode reading one of his books (Sifting Through the Madness for The Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems).

In the 1996 movie 'Swingers' the main character, Mike (Jon Favreau) has a copy of 'Hollywood' on the desk of his LA apartment.

In 2008 two DVDs were released by mondayMEDIA that are of the last two readings Bukowski ever gave, even though he lived for another 16 years. There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot In Here from 1979 in Vancouver, Canada and The Last Straw from 1980 in Redondo Beach, California.

In season 5 of Beverly Hills 90210, Dylan is given a copy of "The Last Night Of The Earth Poems".

in season one of the uk sitcom 'peepshow' one of the main characters, jez, imagines himself perceived as a modern day bukowski while drinking beer in a supermarket.

Theater

Miscellaneous

Henry Chinaski or 'Hank' is the protagonist of five novels by Charles Bukowski, as well as many short stories and poems. Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski is the Protagonist of five novels by Charles Bukowski, as well as many short stories and poems He is a consummate anti-hero: a misanthropic alcoholic who drifts from job to job and woman to woman. He is also an autobiographical character; like Bukowski, Chinaski grows up poor and has liaisons with mostly older women and spends many years in a post office job he hates.

A pair of taverns bearing his name opened in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, some three years after his death, decorated in paintings and quotations from Bukowski and others. A tavern or pot-house is loosely a place of Business where people gather to drink Alcoholic beverages and more than likely also be served Food Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It hosts a Dead Author's Club of mugs engraved with a patron's favorite dead author. At least two other bars are known to have opened in his name: 'Bukowski's' was a successful bar in Vancouver, BC, in the Commercial Drive area for years before being sold. Many have argued that Bukowski would have liked the one on Commercial Drive most of all. There was also a bohemian-style dive bar in Sheffield, England named "Bukowski's", which closed a few years ago and is now a Thai restaurant. The term bohemian, of French origin was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished Artists dive bar, or simply a dive, is a Downmarket drinking establishment serving a Working class (or poorer clientele Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England Another tavern bearing his name is located in the Malasaña zone of Madrid, Spain. Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. Another successful bar named after Bukowski opened in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 2005, and has been a night-life attraction ever since. There is also a bar bearing his name in La Plata, Argentina and a bar in Glasgow, Scotland named Chinaski`s, in honour of his autobiographical character.

Ohad Naharin's Decadence includes an excerpt from George and Zalman (2006), in which five women repeat phrases of movement that coincide with the recording of a woman’s voice flatly reciting Bukowski's "making it" from Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, which is also repeated with accumulated instructions: “Ignore all possible concepts and possibilities. Ignore Beethoven. The spider. The Damnation of Faust. Just make it, babe. Make it…” Although the dancers repeat the same movement throughout this excerpt, they change formations and each have solos while the others stand in the background.

On May 30, 2008, Thomas Friedman, the popular New York Times columnist who has sold millions of books covering American foreign policy, read the last chapter of his new book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution, and How It can Renew America" (due to be released In August of 2008) to a book expos audience on the CSPAN cable network. Bukowski and his book of poems "What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through The Fire" is mentioned in the last chapter of Friedman's new book, as read aloud by Friedman to the audience.

Bibliography

1960s

  • Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail (1960)
  • Poems and Drawings (1962)
  • Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1962)
  • Run with the Hunted (1962)
  • It Catches My Heart in Its Hand (1963)
  • Grip the walls (1964)
  • Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965)
  • Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
  • Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
  • All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966)
  • The Genius of the Crowd (1966)
  • Night's work (1966)
  • The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1967)
  • At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
  • Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window (1968)
  • A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
  • Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
  • If we take -- (1969)
  • Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

1970s

  • Another Academy (1970)
  • Fire Station (1970)
  • Post Office (1971) ISBN 0-87685-087-5
  • Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
  • Me and your sometimes love poems (1972)
  • Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (1972)
  • South of No North (1973)
  • Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (1974)
  • 55 beds in the same direction (1974)
  • Factotum (1975)
  • The Last Poem & Tough Company (1976)
  • Scarlet (1976)
  • Art (1977)
  • Love is a Dog from Hell Poems 1974-1977 (1977)
  • Legs, Hips and Behind (1978)
  • Women (1978)
  • You Kissed Lilly (1978)
  • A Love Poem (1979)
  • Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
  • Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)

1980s

  • Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
  • Ham On Rye (1982)
  • Horsemeat (1982)
  • The Last Generation (1982)
  • Bring Me Your Love (illustrated by Robert Crumb) (1983) ISBN 0-87685-606-7
  • The Bukowski/Purdy Letters (1983)
  • Hot Water Music (1983)
  • Sparks (1983)
  • Going Modern (1984)
  • Horses Don't Bet on People and Neither Do I (1984)
  • One For The Old Boy (1984)
  • There's No Business (illustrated by Robert Crumb) (1984)
  • War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 (1984)
  • Hostage by Bukowski Audio Book read by Bukowski in front of live audience in 1980 released (1985) ISBN 1-56826-426-7
  • Alone In A Time Of Armies (1985)
  • The Day it Snowed in L. Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969 is a collection of articles written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper Post Office ( 1971) is a Novel written by Charles Bukowski. In the same way that Ham On Rye can be said to be an autobiographical Factotum is the second novel by American author Charles Bukowski, published in 1975 Ham on Rye is a 1982 Semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) often credited simply as R Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) often credited simply as R A. (1986)
  • Gold In Your Eye (1986)
  • Relentless As The Tarantula (1986)
  • The Wedding (1986)
  • You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense (1986)
  • Luck (1987)
  • Barfly (film) (1987)
  • Beauti-Ful (1988)
  • The Movie Critics (1988)
  • Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (1988)
  • Hollywood (1989)
  • If You Let Them Kill You They Will (1989)
  • Red (1989)
  • We Ain't Got No Money Honey (1989)

1990s

  • Darkness & Ice (1990)
  • Not Quite Bernadette (1990)
  • Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems (1990)
  • This (1990)
  • In the Morning and at Night and In Between (1991)
  • In The Shadow Of The Rose (1991)
  • People Poems (1991)
  • Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
  • Now (1992)
  • Three Poems (1992)
  • Between The Earthquake (1993)
  • Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (1993)
  • Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993)
  • Those Marvelous Lunches (1993)
  • Pulp (1994)
  • Confession Of A Coward (1995)
  • Heat Wave (1995)
  • Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960s-1970s, Volume 2 (1995)
  • Shakespeare Never Did This (augmented edition) (1995)
  • Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (1996)
  • The Laughing Heart (1996)
  • Bone Palace Ballet (1997)
  • A New War (1997)
  • The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998) ISBN 1-57423-058-1
  • To Lean Back Into It (1998)
  • Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978-1994, Volume 3 (1999)
  • The Singer (1999)
  • What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999)

2000 and after

  • Open All Night (2000)
  • Popcorn In The Dark (2000)
  • Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 (2001)
  • The night torn mad with footsteps (2001)
  • Pink Silks (2001)
  • The Simple Truth (2002)
  • Sifting Through The Madness for the Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems (2003) ISBN 0-06-056823-2
  • as Buddha smiles (2004)
  • The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (2004) ISBN 0-06-057701-0
  • Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
  • Come On In!: New Poems (2006)
  • The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems (2007)
  • The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (2007)
  • The Last Straw: DVD of Reading (2008)
  • There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot In Here: DVD of Reading (2008)

Biographies

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Miles, Barry. Linda King (1940-present is an American Poet and Sculptor. She is best known for having been the Girlfriend of American writer Charles Bukowski Modest Mouse are an American Alternative rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Charles Bukowski.
  2. ^ a b Sounes, Howard. Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, p. 8
  3. ^ Who is Charles Bukowski?
  4. '^ 'South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life - HarperCollins.
  5. ^ bukowski.net/timeline
  6. ^ a b Introduction to Charles Bukowski, by Jay Dougherty
  7. ^ Ciotti, Paul. (March 22, 1987) Los Angeles Times Bukowski: He's written more than 40 books, and in Europe he's treated like a rock star. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed He has dined with Norman Mailer and goes to the race track with Sean Penn. Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are starring in a movie based on his life. At 66, poet Charles Bukowski is suddenly in vogue. Section: Los Angeles Times Magazine; Page 12.
  8. ^ Boston Review:
  9. ^ Amazon.com: The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems: Charles Bukowski: Books
  10. ^ MySpace.com - The Suicide - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - www.myspace.com/thesuicidemovie
  11. ^ a b http://www.playbill.com/news/article/33656.html

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NAME Bukowski, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bukowski, Henry Charles
SHORT DESCRIPTION American Novelist, Poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Andernach, Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1994
PLACE OF DEATH San Pedro, California
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